Lowkey – Wake Up Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
- Yeah
- The year 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
- These are my views
- Hear my words
- Listen, listen
Verse 1
- I woke up this morning so I had to make a new track
- This is the difference between true stories and true facts
- This right here is what waking up feels like
- This is the difference between real talk and real life
- It’s a treacherous road so mind the GAP
- Because they try to blur the lines between lies and facts
- They told you, it was finished, but that’s all a lie
- ’Cos there’s children in them sweatshops, some as young as four or five
- Check the tongue on your trainers
- These slave-made products are brought here to get endorsed by somebody famous
- So we think it looks cool
- While slaves are stitching footballs in Pakistan
- I break it down in a way that other rappers can’t
- It’s hard to stop sleeping and wake up, ’cos it’s too real
- But if karma doesn’t get you first then the truth will
- We're living in some wild days
- According to Unicef there’s 246 million child slaves
- So…
Hook
- Wake up
- Open your eyes and listen to this
- Cos little innocent kids are stitching them kicks
- I'm ticked off, cos we're living this myth
- The devil's biggest of tricks was convincing the people he didn't exist
- So..
- Wake up
- You think it ended but it never did
- It put the chocolate in our mouth
- The logos on our freshest kicks
- The logos on our backs, the coffee we drink, almost everything
- There’s more slaves on earth right now than there’s ever been
Verse 2
- You're listening to the wrong rappers
- Companies use child slaves then blame it all on their subcontractors
- Don’t need to guess who sewed those jeans, but who’s buying these clothes
- Who gives us cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast?
- The answers are Mars, but you don't need to search the skies
- They’re in Asian sweatshops making Mickey Mouse merchandise
- Nowadays it's less to do with the colour of your skin, fam
- It’s more to do with the country that you’re in, fam
- Won't stop spitting until there’s a change
- Every purchase that we make, keep the children in chains
- It’s so twisted and strange to me
- Some parents are so poor they sell their own kids into slavery
- It’s an ugly state of affairs
- Slaves used to pick cotton but now they stitch ticks on the trainers we wear
- When they tell you it’s finished, don’t let them
- ’Cos it’s still here, even though it got abolished in 1807
Hook
- Wake up
- Open your eyes and listen to this
- Cos little innocent kids are stitching them kicks
- I'm ticked off, cos we're living this myth
- The devil's biggest of tricks was convincing the people he didn't exist
- So..
- Wake up
- You think it ended but it never did
- It put the chocolate in our mouth
- The logos on our freshest kicks
- The logos on our backs, the coffee we drink, almost everything
- There’s more slaves on earth right now than there’s ever been
Verse 3
- This is for those who kept faith
- And all the children around the globe getting sold as sex slaves
- Back in the day it was bad but this is the next phase
- Nowadays everything’s in our hands fam, let’s change
- In these tragic times, we gotta analyse these rappers rhymes
- The fact is they're blind, and they glamourise a pack of lies
- The powers that be got us distracted but we have to fight
- ’Cos these days it’s not as simple as being black or white
- We need to fix our lives and get some unity
- ’Cos ’til the feds get their weapons, shoot-executing me
- Putting me back to sleep is something you could never do to me
- Yours truly, Lowkey, the rapper slash revolutionary
- Do your research if you don't believe it still exists
- It’s just a matter of how long can we live with it
- You could call me a hypocrite
- ’Cos if you look at my shoe on my foot right now, you’d see a little tick on it